Stock account/order/market price inquiry sevice method using a mobile terminal

ABSTRACT

Disclosed is a stock account/order/market price inquiry service method using a mobile terminal that is able to perform a stock account/order/market price inquiry service through a mobile terminal using a stock chip. A stock account/order/market price inquiry service method comprising the steps of: (1) displaying a lower menu page on a mobile terminal of the stock account/order service after a PIN authentication; (2) generating an account/order service request message on the basis of stock chip information read from a stock chip and service request information corresponding to the lower menu and then transmitting the same to a relay server; and (3) receiving a service response message corresponding to service request message from the relay server and displaying the same on the screen of a mobile terminal.

BACKGROUND

1. Field of the Invention

The present invention relates to a stock service method, particularly toa stock account/order/market price inquiry service method using a mobileterminal that is able to perform a stock account/order/market priceinquiry service through a mobile terminal using a stock chip.

2. Discussion of Related Art

Recently, owing to enhancement of the performance in a mobile terminal,a remote service system is developed. The mobile terminal, which is usedfor enhancing a user's convenience, totally affects human society toomuch. For example, various interior consumer devices can be controlledfrom the outer through the mobile terminal. Namely, home automationtechnique can be embodied by the mobile terminal.

In addition to the switching function in accordance with the mentionedhome automation, techniques that are able to perform an interactiveservice task through a mobile terminal installing a predeterminedprogram are enlarged. The field of financial services can be given asone example. Particularly, services, such as the transfer to anotherbank and the identification of his/her account information of apredetermined bank, are being performed.

Also in case of the field of stock, home trading system was moredeveloped from an initial direct trading method owing to the developmentof internet. Herein, in according as the home trading system is mountedat a mobile terminal using GVM (General Virtual Machine; referred to as“GVM” hereinafter) and the mobile terminal is directly driven, a stockaccount service using a mobile terminal is realized. Namely, a stockaccount service method using a WAP (Wireless Application Protocol;referred to as “WAP” hereinafter) based wireless internet was simplychanged from a stock account service method using conventional cableinternet.

But the mentioned conventional method has problems as follows.

At first, the mentioned conventional method has far fewer input/outputmeans than home trading system on PC using internet, and has smallmemory size and thus can only be the inquiry of market price.

In addition, the method has to download corresponding contentsseparately because it uses a stock account service by driving a GVMbased WAP browser, and inconveniently has to input a user's ID/PASSWORD.

Furthermore, because the given memory size is small, if the user'sID/PASSWORD are previously stored, the user's ID/PASSWORD have to beinputted at every times whenever the same is used and security problemsare generated by each user identification through the PASSWORD input.

Finally, owing to the frequent download and the complication of usageprocedure, the usage of mobile communication network is increased andthen user's call ratio is decimated together with the frequentgeneration of overload.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to provide a stockaccount/order/market price inquiry service method using a mobileterminal which is able to effectively reduce the input procedure bymounting a stock chip to a mobile terminal.

In addition, it is other object of the present invention to provide astock market price inquiry service method using a mobile terminal whichis able to enhance the authentication function of a communication dataand personal information between a user and securities.

Furthermore, it is another object of the present invention to provide astock service method using a mobile terminal which is able to reduce theconnection time by shortening a communication path which frequentlygenerated between a user and securities through a hot key and thusreduce the overload of a communication network and user's call ratio.

Accordingly, it is a first aspect of the present invention to provide astock account/order service method performing a stock account/orderservice, the method comprising the steps of: (1) displaying a lower menupage on a mobile terminal of the stock account/order service after a PINauthentication; (2) generating an account/order service request messageon the basis of stock chip information read from a stock chip andservice request information corresponding to the lower menu and thentransmitting the same to a relay server; and (3) receiving a serviceresponse message corresponding to service request message from the relayserver and displaying the same on the screen of a mobile terminal.

Preferably, the stock chip can be removable to the mobile terminal. Morepreferably, the stock chip can add an additional service function suchas a prepaid traffic function except for a stock service. Mostpreferably, the stock chip stores FCI (File Control Information)recording code information of each securities, basic informationrecording an effective term and an encryption method of the stock chip,stock account information recording a concerned issue group provided toa user, an issue code corresponding to each concerned issue and an issuename corresponding to the issue code, mobile stock information recordinguser's personal information and login ID/PASSWORD of securities, stockbank book key recording a stock account and issuance information and keyinformation for the renewal, and PIN (Personal Identification Number)recording a stock chip password for a user authentication.

In the embodiment, the stock chip stores initial user information in thecase that the stock chip is issued in a window of securities, and a userrenews and re-adjusts the user information through the adjustmentfunction of the mobile terminal after logging in through a PIN (PersonalIdentification Number) authentication. Preferably, the step (1) furthercomprises: confirming a PIN number inputted from a user; and displayinga lower menu page corresponding to the stock account/order service onthe screen of the mobile terminal in the case that after comparing theinputted PIN number with a PIN number stored at the stock chip, thecomparison result is identical to each other, and displaying a servicepage selected from the user in the lower menu page on the screen of themobile terminal. More preferably, the step (2) further comprises:reading information in according to a securities key, ID/PASSWORD of thesecurities, a dealing account number of a corresponding securities and asecret dealing number from the stock chip; generating a service requestmessage on the basis of stock chip information read from the stock chipand a lower menu service request of the account/order service; andtransmitting the service request message to a relay server. Mostpreferably, the step (3) further comprises: analyzing the servicerequest message transmitted from the mobile terminal, by the relayserver; transmitting a user-authenticated service request message to asecurities server and a non-authenticated service request message to amarket price inquiry server in accordance with the analysis result; andreceiving a service response message in response to the service requestfrom the securities server and market price inquiry server, and thentransmitting the same to the mobile terminal.

Preferably, the account service request message is any one of a balancerequest message, a withholdings request message, an order conclusionrequest message, a non-conclusion request message, a reservation inquiryrequest message, an ECN conclusion request message, and an ECNnon-conclusion request message. Also, a response message in response tothe balance request message is a balance response message includingvolume of a balance in accordance with each issue in predeterminedsecurities.

More preferably, a response message in response to the withholdingsrequest message is a withholdings response message including possibleorder amount, possible re-purchase amount, D+2 withholdings, accountreceivable, possible inside-market amount and possible KOSDAQ amount.Most preferably, a response message in response to the order conclusionrequest message is an order conclusion response message including volumeof a conclusion in accordance with each issue in predeterminedsecurities. Further, a response message in response to thenon-conclusion request message is a non-conclusion response messageincluding volume of a non-conclusion in accordance with each issue inpredetermined securities. Furthermore, a response message in response tothe reservation inquiry request message is a reservation inquiryresponse message including the state of reservation selling/purchase inaccordance with each issue in predetermined securities. Moreover, aresponse message in response to the ECN conclusion request message is anECN conclusion response message including volume of an ECN conclusion inaccordance with each issue in predetermined securities. In addition, aresponse message in response to the ECN non-conclusion request messageis an ECN non-conclusion response message including volume of an ECNnon-conclusion in accordance with each issue in predeterminedsecurities.

In the embodiment, the order service request message is any one of aselling request message, a purchase request message, anamendment/cancellation request message, an ECN purchase request message,an ECN selling request message and ECN amendment/cancellation requestmessage. Preferably, a response message in response to the sellingrequest message and the ECN selling request message is a sellingresponse message including issue classification, kind of trade, volumeof trade, and purchase price, a response message in response to thepurchase request message and the ECN purchase request message is anselling response message including issue classification, kind of trade,volume of trade, and purchase price.

In the embodiment, a response message in response to theamendment/cancellation request message and the ECNamendment/cancellation request message is any one of an issue code,trade classification, kind of trade, volume of trade, purchase price,trade volume of initial order, and amendment/cancellation price.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provideda stock account/order service method using a mobile terminal which isable to remove a stock chip adding an additional service function suchas a prepaid traffic function except for a stock service, the methodcomprising the steps of: (1) confirming a PIN number inputted from auser; (2) displaying a lower menu page corresponding to the stockaccount/order service on the screen of the mobile terminal in the casethat after comparing the inputted PIN number with a PIN number stored atthe stock chip, the comparison result is identical to each other, anddisplaying a service page selected from the user in the lower menu pageon the screen of the mobile terminal; (3) reading information inaccording to a securities key, ID/PASSWORD of the securities, a dealingaccount number of a corresponding securities and a secret dealing numberfrom the stock chip; (4) generating a service request message on thebasis of stock chip information read from the stock chip and a lowermenu service request of the account/order service; (5) transmitting theservice request message to a relay server; and (6) receiving a serviceresponse message in response to the service request message from therelay server and then displaying the same on the screen of the mobileterminal.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, there is provideda stock market information service method using a mobile terminalmounting a stock chip, the method comprising the steps of: (a)generating a service request message corresponding to the selected itemand then providing the service request message with a market priceserver in the case that a user of the mobile terminal activates a stockmarket price service and selects any one of market service itemsincluded in the stock market price service menu; (b) providing a datacorresponding to the service request message with the mobile terminal bythe market price server in case of receiving the service requestmessage; and (c) generating a stock market price page corresponding tothe data and the selected item and then displaying the generated marketprice page on the screen of the mobile terminal in case of receiving thedata.

Preferably, the market price items include at least one of concernedissue, present price/asked price, stock price per day, chart, presentfutures price/asked price, present ECN price/asked price, index, andissue stock market conditions. More preferably, the step (a) furthercomprises: a-1) discriminating whether the selected item is theconcerned item or not; a-2) reading issues stored at a concerned groupstored the stock chip, generating a concerned issue page including theread issues and then displaying the generated concerned issue page onthe screen of the mobile terminal in case of the concerned groupselection in the discrimination result; and a-3) generating servicerequest message corresponding to the selected issue and providing theservice request message with a market price server in the case that theuser selects any one of issues in the concerned issue page. Mostpreferably, the step (a-2) performs a PIN authentication before readingthe issues from the stock chip.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

These and/or other aspects and advantages of the invention will becomeapparent and more readily appreciated from the following description ofthe preferred embodiments, taken in conjunction with the accompanyingdrawings of which:

FIG. 1 illustrates a block diagram of a stock account service systemusing a mobile terminal in accordance with the present invention;

FIG. 2 illustrates a storage list of a stock chip in accordance with thepresent invention;

FIG. 3 illustrates a service list provided from an account applicationin accordance with the present invention;

FIG. 4 illustrates a flow chart of a stock account service method usinga mobile terminal in accordance with the present invention;

FIG. 5 illustrates a menu screen page of a stock account service inaccordance with the present invention;

FIG. 6 illustrates a pin information input screen page in accordancewith the present invention;

FIG. 7 illustrates a balance page in accordance with the presentinvention;

FIG. 8 illustrates a withholdings page in accordance with the presentinvention;

FIG. 9 illustrates an order conclusion page in accordance with thepresent invention;

FIG. 10 illustrates a non-conclusion page in accordance with the presentinvention;

FIG. 11 illustrates a reservation inquiry page in accordance with thepresent invention;

FIG. 12 illustrates an ECN conclusion page in accordance with thepresent invention;

FIG. 13 illustrates an ECN non-conclusion page in accordance with thepresent invention;

FIG. 14 illustrates a transfer page in accordance with the presentinvention;

FIG. 15 illustrates a bank account inquiry selection page in accordancewith the present invention;

FIG. 16 illustrates a transfer confirmation page in accordance with thepresent invention;

FIG. 17 illustrates a service list provided from an order application inaccordance with the present invention;

FIG. 18 illustrates a stock order service method using a mobile terminalin accordance with the present invention;

FIG. 19 illustrates a menu screen page of a stock order service inaccordance with the present invention;

FIG. 20 illustrates a PIN information input screen page in accordancewith the present invention;

FIG. 21 illustrates a selling page in accordance with the presentinvention;

FIG. 22 illustrates a purchase page in accordance with the presentinvention;

FIG. 23 illustrates an amendment/cancellation page in accordance withthe present invention;

FIG. 24 illustrates an ECN selling page in accordance with the presentinvention;

FIG. 25 illustrates an ECN purchase page in accordance with the presentinvention;

FIG. 26 illustrates an ECN amendment/cancellation page in accordancewith the present invention;

FIG. 27 illustrates an asked price page in accordance with the presentinvention;

FIG. 28 illustrates a service list provided from a market price inquiryapplication in accordance with the present invention.

FIG. 29 illustrates a flow chart illustrating the operation of a stockmarket price inquiry service system in accordance with the presentinvention; and

FIGS. 30 through 41 illustrate pages displayed on the screen of a mobileterminal in accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the presentinvention.

The following Examples are given for the purpose of illustration onlyand are not intended to limit the scope of this invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS

Hereinafter, preferable embodiments according to the present inventionwill be described with reference to the accompanying drawings. Here,when one element is connected to another element, one element may be notonly directly connected to another element but also indirectly connectedto another element via another element. Further, irrelative elements areomitted for clarity. Also, like reference numerals refer to likeelements throughout.

Referring to FIGS. 1 through 41, a preferable embodiment that easilyembodied by a person having ordinary skill in the same art that belongsto the present invention will be described in more detail.

FIG. 1 illustrates a block diagram of a stock account service systemusing a mobile terminal in accordance with the present invention.

As depicted in FIG. 1, the stock service system comprises a user'smobile terminal 100, a BTS (Base station Transceiver System) 110, a BSC(Base Station Controller)/a MSC (Mobile Switching Center) 120, a PDSN(Packet Data Switch Network) 130, a relay server 140, a market priceinquiry server 150, at least one of securities server 160, and a stockchip 170 removable to the mobile terminal 100.

The PDSN 130 performs a call process with the BTS 110 which performswireless-interface with the mobile terminal 100, and provides a packetdata transmission service between a RAN (Radio Access Network), whichincludes the BTS 110 and BSC/MSC 120 providing a core network-interface,and DCN (Data Core Network) using a PPP and TCP/IP protocol. Namely, astock trade service in accordance with the present invention is servicedbased on the TCP/IP protocol.

The relay server 140 interlocks with a mobile system including themobile terminal 100, the BTS 110, the BSC/MSC 120, and the PDSN 130. Inaddition, the relay server 140 receives a market price inquiry message,an order message, an account message, and an adjustment messagetransmitted the mobile terminal 100, and transmits the market priceinquiry message to a market price inquiry server and the order message,the account message, and the adjustment message, etc to a correspondingsecurities server 160.

The market price inquiry server 150 receives a market-related message(news, stock market conditions, recommended issue, stock price, etc)from the mobile terminal 100 through the PDSN 130, and then transmitsthe result of a corresponding to message and a related date to themobile terminal 100 through the relay server 140, the PDSN 130, the BTS110, and the BSC/MSC 120.

The securities server 160 receives an order message, an account message,an adjustment message, etc through the PDSN 130, performs apredetermined client authentication, processes various messages receivedby interlocking with an order/account server mounted in each securitiesand then transmits the result thereof and a related data to the mobileterminal 100 through the relay server 140, the PDSN 130, the BTS 110,and the BSC/MSC 120.

As described above, the mobile terminal 110 and the securities server160 is accessed to each other using the TCP/IP protocol, and thetransmission/reception of various data or information between themperformed through a wireless TCP/IP communication using a wireless datanetwork such as the PDSN 130.

On the other hand, the mobile terminal 100 is any one of a portablephone having related hardware devices for the wirelessdata-communication, a smart phone, and a PDA, etc. In addition, themobile terminal 100 includes a removable stock chip 170, and memorizingdevices (not shown) mounting related software for a market priceinquiry, an order, account information, an adjustment message.

The stock chip 170 is capable of being removable to the mobile terminal100, is made up of an IC (Integrated Chip), and a user can access toembedded information through a PIN authentication confirming theconsistency by inputting PIN information which is a PASSWORD. Inaddition, the stock chip 170 can add an additional service function suchas a prepaid traffic function, etc related to a stock account service.

The information stored at the stock chip 170, is adjusted in case of theissuance of the stock chip 170 in the window of financial institution,and after a user logs in to the stock chip 170 through a PINauthentication conforming consistence of PIN information inputted fromthe mobile terminal 100, renews and re-adjusts stock account informationthrough the adjustment function of the mobile terminal 100.

The stock chip 170 can access to information embedded at the stock chip170 only through the PIN authentication, and is used by connected withthe mobile terminal 100, if necessary. Otherwise, because separatestorage is available, user's convenience is provided in case ofinputting information relate to a stock account, a related stockaccount, user information, an ID/PASSWORD of securities and thussecurity of the data is established.

Moreover, the mobile terminal 100 and the securities server 160 uses aSEED algorithm or an encryption method using a secession key for thesecurity of data, user's stock and financial information in the mobileenvironmental.

As depicted in FIG. 2, the information embedded at the stock chip 170includes a FCI (File Control Information) recording code information ofeach securities, basic information recording an effective term and anencryption method of the stock chip, stock account information recordinga concerned issue group provided to a user, an issue code correspondingto each concerned issue and an issue name corresponding to the issuecode, mobile stock information recording user's personal information andlogin ID/PASSWORD of securities, stock bank book key recording a stockaccount and issuance information and key information for the renewal,and PIN (Personal Identification Number) recording a stock chip passwordfor a user authentication, etc.

Respective securities download a separate stock application from acontents provision server and uses the same, and can integrate andrespectively use different ID/PASSWORD. In addition, concerned issue andaccount information, which have to be inputted to each stockapplication, can be integrated as one.

The mobile terminal 100 downloads an account application through thecontents provision server (not shown) storing various contents and theninstalls the same inside of the mobile terminal 100. In addition, theaccount application can be upgraded, if possible. The accountapplication, as a software program having a series of process of a stockaccount service, receives data and selection command through the mobileterminal 100 or outputs an inquiry result, etc, and transmits/receivesdata to/from the stock chip 170, a market price inquiry server 150 and asecurities server 160.

FIG. 3 illustrates a service list provided from an account applicationin accordance with the present invention.

Respective exemplary embodiment in accordance with the operation of astock account service system of the present invention will be explainedhereinafter. Namely, an account service among various stock serviceswill be explained. Herein, like reference numerals refer to likeelements throughout.

Particularly, because the account service needs a PIN informationauthentication procedure, it interlocks with the securities server 150and with a finance server if necessary.

An order service method will be explained with reference to the attachedFIG. 4 hereinafter.

(1) If a user selects an account service in main menu page of a stockaccount service provided from an account application, the accountapplication displays a lower menu page corresponding to the accountservice on the screen of the mobile terminal 100 as depicted in FIG. 5(S101).

Herein, because the account service needs a PIN authentication, theaccount application receives a PIN number from a user by displaying aPIN input page of FIG. 6 on the screen of the mobile terminal 100 forthe PIN information authentication (S102-S103).

The account application compares the inputted PIN number with PINinformation stored at the stock chip 170. A lower menu page (balance,withholdings, order conclusion, non-conclusion, reservation inquiry, ECNconclusion, ECN non-conclusion) corresponding to the selected orderservice is displayed on the screen of the mobile terminal 100 in thecase that the comparison result is consistent with each other asdepicted FIG. 5 (S104-S105).

After that, the account application receives a service selected at thelower menu page from the mobile terminal 100 (S106). Herein, a balancepage is displayed on the screen of the mobile terminal 100 as depictedFIG. 7 in the case that the selected service is balance.

However, a withholdings page of FIG. 8 is displayed on the screen of themobile terminal 10 in the case that the selected service iswithholdings, an order conclusion page of FIG. 9 is displayed on thescreen of the mobile terminal 10 in the case that the selected serviceis order conclusion, a non-conclusion page of FIG. 10 is displayed onthe screen of the mobile terminal 10 in the case that the selectedservice is non-conclusion, a reservation inquiry page of FIG. 11 isdisplayed on the screen of the mobile terminal 10 in the case that theselected service is reservation inquiry, an ECN conclusion page of FIG.12 is displayed on the screen of the mobile terminal 10 in the case thatthe selected service is ECN conclusion, and a ECN non-conclusion page ofFIG. 13 is displayed on the screen of the mobile terminal 10 in the casethat the selected service is ECN non-conclusion.

The account application reads information in accordance with a key ofsecurities with which is dealing, an ID/PASSWORD of securities, tradeaccount number of corresponding securities, trade secrete number fromthe stock chip 170. Herein, it is available to enable other securities(registered at the stock chip 170 previously) to be selected bydisplaying a page corresponding to the change of securities on thescreen of the mobile terminal 100 in the case that the change ofsecurities is requested.

In addition, the account application generates a balance inquiry requestmessage on the basis of the stock chip information (a key of securitieswith which is dealing, an ID/PASSWORD of securities, trade accountnumber of corresponding securities, trade secrete number) and thebalance request (S107).

Therefore, the mobile terminal 100 transmits a balance request messageincluding the stock chip information to the relay server 140 through theBTS 110, the BSC/MSC 120 and the PDSN 130 (S108).

The relay server 140 analyzes the balance request message transmittedfrom the mobile terminal 100 and transmits the same to correspondingserver. In the exemplary embodiment, the analyzed message is transmittedto the securities server 160 corresponding to the securities key (S109).Thus, the securities server 160 performs a series of procedurecorresponding to the balance request message and then transmits theresult as a balance response message to the mobile terminal 100 throughthe relay server 140 (S110). Namely, the securities server 160 confirmsbalance volume in accordance with issue in corresponding securities.

Also in this case, a withholdings response message including orderavailable amount, re-purchase available amount, D+2 withholdings,account receivable, Inside dealing available amount and KOSDAQ availableamount is displayed on the screen of the mobile terminal 10 in the casethat the service response message is withholdings, an order conclusionresponse message including volume of conclusion in accordance with issueis displayed on the screen of the mobile terminal 10 in the case thatthe service response message is order conclusion, a non-conclusionresponse message including volume of non-conclusion in accordance withissue is displayed on the screen of the mobile terminal 10 in the casethat the service response message is non-conclusion, a reservationinquiry response message including reservation selling/purchase inaccordance with issue is displayed on the screen of the mobile terminal10 in the case that the service response message is reservation inquiry,an ECN conclusion response message including ECN conclusions inaccordance with issue is displayed on the screen of the mobile terminal10 in the case that the service response message is ECN conclusion, anda ECN non-conclusion response message including ECN conclusions inaccordance with issue is displayed on the screen of the mobile terminal10 in the case that the service response message is ECN non-conclusion.

After that, the account application receives the balance responsemessage and displays the same on the screen of the mobile terminal 100(S111).

(2) however, in the case that a user receives a service selecting in thelower menu page from the mobile terminal 100, if the selected service istransfer, a transfer page of FIG. 14 is displayed on the screen of themobile terminal 100 (S105).

The account application reads information in accordance with a key ofsecurities with which is dealing, an ID/PASSWORD of securities, tradeaccount number of corresponding securities, trade secrete number fromthe stock chip 170. In addition, the account application receives bankwhere will be deposited, part payment account and contribution from auser (S106).

Herein, it is available to enable other securities (registered at thestock chip 170 previously) to be selected by displaying a pagecorresponding to the change of securities on the screen of the mobileterminal 100 in the case that the change of securities is requested.

In addition, the account application generates a balance inquiry requestmessage on the basis of the stock chip information (a key of securitieswith which is dealing, an ID/PASSWORD of securities, trade accountnumber of corresponding securities and trade secrete number), financialinformation to be transferred (bank where will be deposited, partpayment account) and the transfer request (S107).

Herein, in the case that bank where will be deposited, part paymentaccount or the change of account number are requested, bank or accountcan be changed by displaying a bank account inquiry selection page ofFIG. 15 on the screen of the mobile terminal 100 in order that a userselects the bank and an account read from the stock chip 170.

Therefore, the mobile terminal 100 transmits a transfer request messageincluding the stock chip information and financial information to therelay server 140 through the BTS 110, the BSC/MSC 120 and the PDSN 130(S108).

The relay server 140 analyzes the transfer request message transmittedfrom the mobile terminal 100 and transmits the same to correspondingserver (S109). In the exemplary embodiment, the analyzed message istransmitted to the securities server 160 corresponding to the securitieskey. Thus, the securities server 160 performs a series of procedurecorresponding to the transfer request message and then transmits theresult as a transfer response message to the mobile terminal 100 throughthe relay server 140 (S110). Namely, the securities server 160 generatesa transfer response message including contributed stock account,deposited bank name and part payment account, contribution, andcommission, etc in corresponding securities.

After that, the account application receives the transfer responsemessage and displays the transfer confirmation page of FIG. 16 on thescreen of the mobile terminal 100 (S111).

FIG. 17 illustrates a service list provided from an order application inaccordance with the present invention.

Respective exemplary embodiment in accordance with the operation of astock order service system of the present invention will be explainedhereinafter. Namely, various stock order services (selling, purchase,amendment/cancellation, ECN purchase, ECN selling and ECNamendment/cancellation) will be explained with reference to FIG. 18.Herein, like reference numerals refer to like elements throughout.

Particularly, because the order service needs a PIN informationauthentication procedure, it interlocks with the securities server 150and with a market price inquiry server if necessary.

(1) If a user selects an order service in main menu page of a stockorder service provided from an order application, the order applicationdisplays a lower menu page corresponding to the order service on thescreen of the mobile terminal 100 as depicted in FIG. 19 (S201).

Herein, because the order service needs a PIN authentication, the orderapplication receives a PIN number from a user by displaying a PIN inputpage of FIG. 20 on the screen of the mobile terminal 100 for the PINinformation authentication (S202-S203).

The order application compares the inputted PIN number with PINinformation stored at the stock chip 170. A lower menu page (selling,purchase, amendment/cancellation, ECN purchase, ECN selling and ECNamendment/cancellation) corresponding to the selected order service isdisplayed on the screen of the mobile terminal 100 in the case that thecomparison result is consistent with each other (S204-S205).

After that, the order application receives a service selected at thelower menu page from the mobile terminal 100 (S206). Herein, the sellingpage is displayed on the screen of the mobile terminal 100 as depictedFIG. 21 in the case that the selected service is selling.

Because the other lower menus of the order service are highly identicalto the case of the mentioned selling, detailed explanation thereof willbe omitted.

However, a purchase page of FIG. 22 is displayed on the screen of themobile terminal 10 in the case that the selected service is purchase, anamendment/cancellation page of FIG. 23 is displayed on the screen of themobile terminal 10 in the case that the selected service isamendment/cancellation, an ECN selling page of FIG. 24 is displayed onthe screen of the mobile terminal 10 in the case that the selectedservice is ECN selling, an ENC purchase page of FIG. 25 is displayed onthe screen of the mobile terminal 10 in the case that the selectedservice is an ECN purchase, an ECN amendment/cancellation page of FIG.26 is displayed on the screen of the mobile terminal 10 in the case thatthe selected service is ECN amendment/cancellation.

The order application reads information in accordance with a key ofsecurities with which is dealing presently, an ID/PASSWORD ofsecurities, trade account number of corresponding securities, tradesecrete number from the stock chip 170 for generating a service requestmessage. And the order application receives detailed specification froma user (namely, corresponding issue code and trade classification, kindof trade, volume of trade, selling price) by displaying the selling pageon the screen of the mobile terminal 100.

Herein, it is available to enable other securities (registered at thestock chip 170 previously) to be selected by displaying a pagecorresponding to the change of securities on the screen of the mobileterminal 100 in the case that the change of securities is requested.

On the other hand, if a user requests present asked price (namely, if auser selects an asked price key of the selling page), the orderapplication displays the asked price page of FIG. 27 on the screen ofthe mobile terminal 100.

Demand of the asked price information and response thereof, because theyinterlock with the market price inquiry server 150, is different fromthe order procedure in accordance with the PIN authentication procedure.

Accordingly, procedure in accordance with demand of the asked priceinformation and response thereof will firstly be explained, and an orderservice will secondly be explained.

The order application generates an asked price information requestmessage, and transmits the same to the relay server 140 through the BTS110, the BSC/MSC 120 and the PDSN 130. Asked price included at the askedprice information request message can be any one of present price,volume of trade, market price, high price, and low price, etc, and canbe made up of the remainder of purchase such as 5 step asked pricewindow and related values, and the remainder of selling and relatedvalues.

The relay server 140 analyzes the asked information transmitted from themobile terminal 100, and transmits the asked information request messageto corresponding server (for example, a market price inquiry server 150because of an asked information request message).

Accordingly, the market price inquiry server 150 generates informationcorresponding to the asked information request message as an asked priceinformation response message, and transmits the same to mobile terminal100. After that, the mobile terminal 100 receives the asked priceinformation response message, and displays an asked page of FIG. 27 onthe screen.

The procedure in accordance with demand of the asked price informationand response thereof was finished and then an order procedure after thestep S206 will be explained hereinafter.

On the other hand, the order application receives selling information(corresponding issue code and trade classification, kind of trade,volume of trade, selling price) from a user, and generates a sellingrequest message on the basis of the stock chip information (a key ofsecurities with which is dealing, an ID/PASSWORD of securities, tradeaccount number of corresponding securities and trade secrete number) andthe selling information (S207).

Accordingly, the mobile terminal 100 transmits a selling request messageto the relay server 140 through the BTS 110, the BSC/MSC 120 and thePDSN 130 (S208).

Herein, purchase information, selling information and ECN purchaseinformation are identical to the selling information, butamendment/cancellation information and ECN amendment/cancellationinformation further include corresponding issue code and tradeclassification, trade volume of initial order, andamendment/cancellation price.

The relay server 140 analyzes the selling request message transmittedfrom the mobile terminal 100, and transmits the same to correspondingserver (S209).

In the exemplary embodiment, the selling request message is transmittedto the securities server 160 corresponding to the securities key.Accordingly, the securities server 160 performs a series of procedurecorresponding to the selling request message and then transmits theresult as a selling response message to mobile terminal 100 through therelay server 140 (S210).

After that, the order application receives the selling response message,and displays a selling result page on the screen of the mobile terminal100 (S211).

FIG. 28 illustrates a service list provided from a market price inquiryapplication in accordance with the present invention.

FIG. 29 is a flow chart illustrating the operation of a stock marketprice inquiry service system in accordance with the present invention.

Respective exemplary embodiments in accordance with the operation of astock market price inquiry service system in the present invention willbe explained with reference to the attached drawings hereinafter.Herein, like reference numerals refer to like elements throughout.

A market price inquiry application, if a stock market price inquiryservice is selected from a user, displays a market page of FIG. 30 onthe screen of the mobile terminal 100.

A lower menu includes a service such as concerned issue, presentprice/asked price, stock price per day, chart, present futures price,present ECN/asked price, index, and issue stock market conditions.

(1) Concerned issue and issue stock market conditions

After that, the market price inquiry application receives a userselection key from the market price menu page. Herein, the user selectsa concerned issue among the market price menu pages (S301, S302, S303).

The concerned issue is made up of at least one of concerned group inorder to be managed as a group unit, and a lower group in accordancewith the concerned group is made up of issue name and present price.Herein, the concerned issue is stored at the stock storage 170, and isapplied according as the market price inquiry application reads theconcerned group after a PIN authentication. In addition, the concernedissue can be renewed or changed (S303, S304, S305).

Accordingly, the market price inquiry application generates the selectedinformation (for example, concerned issue in market price inquiry) as aservice request message (namely, present price in accordance withconcerned issue). And after the market price inquiry application getssocket-access to the relay server 140 through the BTS 110, the BSC/MSC120 and the PDSN 130 and then constitutes a data transmission line, ittransmits the same to the relay server 140 through the BTS 110, theBSC/MSC 120 and the PDSN 130 (S306, S307).

The relay server 140 analyzes a service request message transmitted fromthe mobile terminal 100, and transmits the same to corresponding server(namely, market price inquiry server 150).

The market price inquiry server 150 generates information correspondingto the service request message as a response message, and transmits thesame to mobile terminal 100. Namely, the market price inquiry server 150generates a response message corresponding to a present value requestmessage in accordance with concerned issue, and transmits the same tomobile terminal 100.

After that, a market price inquiry application generates a concernedissue page as depicted in FIG. 31 on the basis of the service responsemessage, and displays the concerned issue page on the screen of themobile terminal 100 (S308).

Herein, the procedure is repeated in the case that the service responsemessage has a predetermined list form. Namely, after one issue amongpresent value list in accordance with the concerned issue is inputted bya user, the issue is generated as a present value request form of theselected issue, information related to the selected issue is inputted asa service response message form and then the same is displayed at apresent page as depicted in FIG. 32 on the screen of the mobile terminal100. Herein, the service response message includes issue name, presentvalue, value over the day before, advance-decline ratio, volume oftrade, remainder of total selling and remainder of total purchase.

In addition, the market price inquiry application receives a userselection key from the market price menu page displayed in the mobileterminal 100. Herein, if a user selects issue market conditions amongthe market price menus, the market price inquiry application displays anissue market conditions page of FIG. 33 on the screen of the mobileterminal 100.

Because later procedure is highly identical to the case of the concernedissue, detailed explanation thereof will be omitted. And the selectedissue, information related to the selected issue is inputted as aservice response message form and then the same is displayed at apresent page as depicted in FIG. 34.

(2) Present price/asked price, stock price per day, chart, presentfutures price, present ECN price/asked price and index

If a user selects a service such as the item (2) from the market pricemenu to a lower menu, the market price inquiry application displays apage as depicted in FIGS. 35 through 40 on the screen of the mobileterminal 100 in accordance with corresponding service.

In addition, the market price inquiry application generates a servicerequest message on the basis of the selected information (for example,present price/asked price, stock price per day, chart, present futuresprice, present ECN price/asked price and index) (S107). And after themarket price inquiry application gets socket-access to the relay server140 through the BTS 110, the BSC/MSC 120 and the PDSN 130, and thenconstitutes a data transmission line, it transmits the same to the relayserver 140 through the BTS 110, the BSC/MSC 120 and the PDSN 130 (S306,S307).

The relay server 140 analyzes a service request message transmitted fromthe mobile terminal 100, and transmits the same to corresponding server(namely, market price inquiry server 150).

The market price inquiry server 150 generates information correspondingto the service request message as a response message, and transmits thesame to mobile terminal 100. Namely, the market price inquiry server 150generates stock price per day of corresponding issue as a responsemessage form, and transmits the same to mobile terminal 100.

After that, a market price inquiry application displays t the serviceresponse message on the screen of the mobile terminal 100 as depicted inFIG. 41.

As described above, according to the present invention, becauserespective securities download separate stock application from acontents provision server using various information stored at a stockchip and uses the same and thus an interface in accordance withrespective securities is integrated, a user's convenience is increased.

In addition, according to the present invention, because respectivesecurities simplify the input procedure by integrating/using differentID/PASSWORD, a user's convenience is highly increased.

Furthermore, according to the present invention, because informationrelated to an order and account is integrated and the information, whichhad to be respectively inputted to respective stock application, istransmitted to corresponding securities as one message, accessing timeis shortened and then the overload of a communication network and user'scall ratio are reduced.

Although a few embodiments of the present invention have been shown anddescribed, it would be appreciated by those skilled in the art thatchanges might be made in this embodiment without departing from theprinciples and spirit of the invention, the scope of which is defined inthe claims and their equivalents.

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 12. A stock market information service method using amobile terminal mounting a stock chip, the method comprising the stepsof: (a) generating a service request message corresponding to theselected item and then providing the service request message with amarket price server in the case that a user of the mobile terminalactivates a stock market price service and selects any one of marketservice items included in the stock market price service menu; (b)providing a data corresponding to the service request message with themobile terminal by the market price server in case of receiving theservice request message; and (c) generating a stock market price pagecorresponding to the data and the selected item and then displaying thegenerated market price page on the screen of the mobile terminal in caseof receiving the data.
 13. The method as claimed in claim 12, whereinthe market price items include at least one of concerned issue, presentprice/asked price, stock price per day, chart, present futuresprice/asked price, present ECN price/asked price, index, and issue stockmarket conditions.
 14. The method as claimed in claim 12, wherein thestep (a) further comprises the steps of: a-1) discriminating whether theselected item is the concerned item or not; a-2) reading issues storedat a concerned group stored the stock chip, generating a concerned issuepage including the read issues and then displaying the generatedconcerned issue page on the screen of the mobile terminal in case of theconcerned group selection in the discrimination result; and a-3)generating service request message corresponding to the selected issueand providing the service request message with a market price server inthe case that the user selects any one of issues in the concerned issuepage.
 15. The method as claimed in claim 14, wherein the step (a-2)performs an PIN authentication before reading the issues from the stockchip.